January 5, 1929 - December 2, 2019
American journalist, historian and biographer
Author of "Peter the Great: His Life and World" (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1981), "Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" (for which he won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2012) and "Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War"